Thursday, May 28, 2009, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre, 54 Journal Square. Tickets are $25 at the lobby door and include illustrated slide presentation, open buffet, wine, coffee and dessert, live music by the Larry Banks Jazz Ensemble, and a private tour of the theatre. For more information contact JCLC VP John Hallanan at 201-456-0486 or jjhallanan@gmail.com.

EXCELLENCE IN PRESERVATION AWARDS

This award, bestowed upon three property owners, recognizes the recent restoration and rehabilitation of a building, structure or object which exemplifies a high regard for the resource’s historical and architectural integrity.

1) To Miles Poindexter and Lycel Villanueva for the artistic restoration of 175 Pine Street, a circa-1871 Second Empire vernacular homestead located in the Lafayette neighborhood of Jersey City.

ADAPTIVE RE-USE PRESERVATION PRIZE

This newly established award category recognizes a recent adaptive re-use project that creatively combines historic fabric with contemporary construction. The aesthetic, structural and mechanical transformation of the original site is expressed through an architectural addition that dramatically respects, retains and completes the old.

To Brunelleschi Construction LLC of Jersey City for the imaginative adaptive re-use of the former Calco Chemical Company (1915) ink dye factory, now known as M650 Flats, 650 Montgomery Street, McGinley Square, Jersey City.

PRESERVATION INITIATIVE AWARD

The Preservation Initiative Award recognizes individuals, organizations, institutions or corporations that initiate and carry out plans - mostly against great odds - to preserve physical fabric and monuments that can never be replaced.

To the Jersey City-Harsimus Cemetery Board of Trustees for their efforts in restoring and raising awareness about the threatened circa-1831 Jersey City-Harsimus Cemetery, 435 Newark Avenue, Jersey City.

TED CONRAD PRESERVATIONIST AWARD

To Marcia Adams and the Madison Avenue Block Association in recognition of their tireless, consistent efforts in raising awareness about the historical and architectural significance of the 19th-century Madison and Bramhall Avenues brownstone residential district.

J. OWEN GRUNDY HISTORY AWARD

Named after the city’s late historian, the J. Owen Grundy History Award recognizes work that chronicles, through a written or visual medium, Jersey City history.

To James A. Percoco, author of Summers with Lincoln, and the Lincoln Association of Jersey City, in timing with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.

JERSEY CITY LEGEND AWARD

The Jersey City Legend Award is given to someone, who through his or her experience, embodies the history of Jersey City.

To Viggo B. Rambusch, Honorary Chairman and Senior Project Manager of the 111-year-old Rambusch Decorating Company, for his decades-long managerial and artisan roles in the world famous decorative arts firm.